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How UK's ditched cigs and turned to vaping: Record 5.4million now use e-cigs OVERTAKING smoking for the first time ever - so how many adults still light up in YOUR area?

Just 9.1 per cent adults in Britain smoked in 2024, down on last year and a fraction of the nearly 50 per cent during the 1970s, according to the ONS.

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